Vietnamese, foreign peacekeepers show off emergency response skills
Military observers, engineers and medical workers of Vietnam and other countries demonstrated their performance of tasks for the United Nations peacekeeping mission, in Hanoi on September 20.
Medical staff in the training session. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA)ꦦ - Military observers, engineers and medical workers of Vietnam and other countries demonstrated theirperformance of tasks for the United Nations peacekeeping mission, in Hanoi onSeptember 20.
Theactivity was part of the Competency Evaluation Programme for Prospective United Nations Peacekeepers of the Experts' Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations (PKO-EWG) Cycle 4 within the framework of the ASEAN Defence Ministerial MeetingPlus (ADMM-Plus).
Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army Sen. Lieut. Gen Phung Si Tan (left) at the event. (Photo: VNA)
In thescenario-based training, they worked together in response to an urgent medicalsituation in which engineer officers were injured by explosive remnants fromwar. ColonelNguyen Nhu Canh, Deputy Director of the Vietnam Department of PeacekeepingOperations, said the training session aimed to raise the trainees’ awareness ofthe suitable response to the unexploded ordnance, as well as the partnership amongmilitary observers, engineers and military medical staff. Theevent, drawing experts, trainees and observers from ADMM-Plus membercountries, was the also last activity of PKO-EWG Cycle 4.
A helicopter carries the injured to the field hospital for treatment. (Photo: VNA)
Sen.Lieut. Gen Phung Si Tan, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the VietnamPeople’s Army, said the success of the activity has contributed to affirmingthe role and responsibility of Vietnam and co-host Japan in activelycontributing to improving the effectiveness of the ADMM member countries’ UNpeacekeeping activities./.
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Medical staff in the training session. (Photo: VNA) 
Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army Sen. Lieut. Gen Phung Si Tan (left) at the event. (Photo: VNA) 
A helicopter carries the injured to the field hospital for treatment. (Photo: VNA) 
